• After Joe Wilson shared his opinion with the President by shouting "You lie!" at him, the South Carolina Republican himself to be quite the rainmaker -- for both himself and his opponent. Fundraising online and off is on track to make the Wilson vs. Miller race the best funded race in South Carolina history, and perhaps the history of the House of Representatives. (via Ben Smith)
• Some mindblowingly horrendous acts of military violence against women in Guinea were captured on cell phone camera, and those images are helping to spark resistance in that West African country.
• A Bob McDonnell advocate in Virginia is in hot water for mocking Creigh Deeds in an act caught by a Deeds video tracker.
• Finally! The secret to social media success has been located.
• Brainstorming about open government is taking place in Canada.
• The FTC's new blogger disclosure requirements aren't being well received in the blogosphere.
• And the White House's resident science geeks at the Office of Science and Technology Policy blog about a free software companion to tomorrow night's Astronomy night on the White House's South lawn: Stellarium. "It is a very easy-to-use tool that helps make stargazing fun and informative." They're not lying! Check out the awesomeness above.

(With Micah Sifry)

• This east coast/west coast feud has got to stop!
• Some are impressed with the new New York City Data Mine. Some are not.
• The Hill launches a new technology policy blog called Hillicon Valley. Accessible tech policy sources aren't a dime a dozen, so it's an exciting development.
• And the intelligence community's decision to phase out a web-based email system has some people worried about the prospects for other cross-agency projects.

• A compressed version of China's parade celebrating 60 years of the "people's republic." (via Andrew Sullivan)
• ProPublica's request for an unredacted copy of Recovery.gov's redesign contract: denied.
• The New York Times covers the New York City data slip up, complete with interviews with people whose "secret questions" were inadvertantly revealed.
• And the Washington Post launches its new tech policy blog, helmed by Cecilia Kang.

• Twenty four hours ago, this would have been just funny.
• Google News bases its new "blog" label on whether the site uses blogging software, which is weird.
• An SEIU video celebrates breaking up with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
• In the wake of a similar call by AT&T, members of Congress want Julius Genachowski to investigate whether Google Voice should have to play by the same rules as traditional telephone services.
• Live from the Left Coast did a show Wednesday night on where technology meets political protests these days. Ignore that Scola punk, but the Center for Democracy and Technology's John Morris makes the fascinating argument that China and other governments use events like the G20 Twitter crackdown to justify their own digital restrictions.
• God hates shrimp. As well as figs.
• The FTC tries to ease worries that new rules put bloggers at real risk of $11,000-a-pop fines, but the Washington Post's Cecilia Kang says she's "still not convinced."
• And the Electronic Frontier Foundation thinks that the FTC's endorsement rules for bloggers are "full of ambiguities and double-standards."
• An event for you New Yorkers: Twitter and Iran, at the Forest Hills Library.
• A peace group launches a flame vigil on the White House Facebook page.
• A review of HUD's new media efforts.
• And a new Oklahoma law would, reports the Atlantic, require online disclosure of abortions preformed in the state.

(With Micah Sifry)

• CitySourced is the latest entrant into the mobile 311 category, with a few things that set it apart from the rest of the crowd. For one thing, they are running it as a for-profit and partnering with cities (1,900 and counting, they say) to serve as a portal onto municipalities' existing constituent service systems. For another, part of the CitySourced team is political veteran David Kralik, who is best known in these parts for formerly being Newt Gingrich's in-house technologist. The project is gaining fans, particularly on the west coast; it was recently a big hit at the TechCrunch50 demo event. (Thanks Shaun Dakin)
• Being a patient 2.0.
• Tim Wu and the Sunlight Foundation folks respond to Larry Lessig's criticisms of the "naked transparency" movement.
• Blue State Digital upgrades its Boston digs, more than doubling their office space in the Hub.
• Chuck DeVore is running against Barbara Boxer for the California Senate seat, and his campaign has spliced together comments from the senator over the years to make the case that she's mean.
• And the latest on Internet filtering in Sub-Saharan Africa.

• In an interview with the Rebuild the Party folks, RNC new media director Todd Hermann offers a peek inside the GOP batcave -- and his thinking on where the new GOP.com will go from here. "It's good," says Hermann. "Let's just make it brilliant."
• Carl Malamud is pulling together a group to build a prototype for new Law.gov.
• Harvard is holding an event right at this very minute on where, how, and why the university uses Twitter. Should you perchance not be in Cambridge this very minute, you can follow along with the action on, yes, Twitter. (Thanks Shaun Dakin)
• Secretary Clinton sends a video message to the attendees of the Alliance of Youth Movements in Mexico City. "Thank you for being on the front lines," she told the innovation young ones and those young at heart. "I can't wait to see what all of you do next."
• Sarah Palin is a big, big fan of Facebook.
• Dave Winer is not such a big fan of our use of Technorati statistics.
• Some tech world biggies are backing the FCC's neutrality push. Still, hurdles remain, particularly questions about how exactly you go about crafting a viable neutrality approach while still letting business do its money-making thing.
• Shepard "HOPE" Fairey's lawyers at Stanford's Fair Use Project are have second thoughts about his case, now that he has said that the photo he used was closer to the Obama poster he produced than the ones he had said he used. Fascinating case.
• Hollywood is starting to warn talent not to reveal spoilers via "interactive media."
• Don't think anyone would ever be so silly? A Cameroon-born fugitive outs himself to law enforcement after posting Facebook updates making it clear he was living it up in Cancun.

• U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra goes on C-SPAN to say that while the White House has a clear "hundred thousand foot view" of net neutrality, it's watching like the rest of us as Julius Genachowski's FCC works out the nitty gritty.
• The Guardian U.K. is wrestling with a gag order that has gotten seriously muddled in the age of Twitter. "Oh Wikileaks, I would so love to RT you," tweeted the Guardian's tech editor in the midst of the fracas, "and would get into so much trouble if I did."
• GovLoop, the social network for government employees and those who love them, has accumulated more than 20,000 members and hired on a community manager.
• "What a jerk," and other thoughts on her colleagues and her work from a commissioner at Florida's utility regulatory commission from her recovered BlackBerry PIN messages. Related, from the Archives: The Coming BlackBerry Crack Down, on how PDA-to-PDA PIN messages thwart government openness measures.
• The British government isn't, after all, going to build a DNA database of innocent folk.
• The Berkman Center releases a draft of its review of broadband build-out plans for the FCC. (Be sure to check out the uber-user-friendly page the FCC has put together in the hopes of fostering civic engagement. "DA-09-2217A1.pdf" practically screams "Read me," doesn't it?)
• A bill to open up the public radio spectrum to low-powered FM radio passed out of House committee. If the bill becomes law, the smallish spaces between big broadcasters on the FM dial while be available for those folks who only need a tiny sliver of spectrum space to reach out to their communities.
• LittleSis goes open source.
• Here's a write-up yesterday at our panel session at New York City's Baruch College on how non-profits can use social media. And have a look at some #aha moments when people saw the power of the social web.
• Bivings gives back. The web developer is offering up $10,000 in online consulting services to one Washington DC-based non-profit organization. Get your application in by October 26th, which is Monday of next week.
• Yahoo is very, very sorry that it hired lap dancers for its hack-a-thon in Taiwan. Really, who could have predicted that this would offend people?
• And the winner of the Government Printing Office's contract to digitize a collection of two million historical documents...no one.

• The Maine No on 1 marriage equality campaign gives a shout-out to the netroots, in particular for helping to raise more than a million dollars on ActBlue. Also, Belinda Carlisle shoots a web ad. (Anyone else unable to get "vacation state, all I ever wanted..." out of their heads?)
• CTO Chopra and CIO Kundra opine on Moore's law.
• The FTC will hold an event in early December called "From Town Crier to Bloggers: How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?"
• Should "social media" be retired in favor of "connection technologies"?
• Twitter goes into the wine business. Seriously. It's a micro-wine operation, where the product will come in very tiny bottles. Not seriously.
• Net neutrality inside baseball.
• Law enforcement releases a crime map of England and Wales. It's so popular, it falls apart.
• The White House has enlisted its official blog in its battle with Fox News. Read the linked piece for some good history on past presidents' conflicts with the press. Obama isn't the first. Heck, the press was said to have killed Jackson's wife!
• At least with Jackson, the subject was something juicy like bigamy. Email confirmations and the validity of opt-in lists are becoming the newest things to fight over.
• The live web is evolving to be more search friendly. Twitter and Facebook status updates will soon, it seems, be Bing-able.

• Andrew Boyd, veteran of the spirited Billionaires for Bush and Buy My [Doody] Pile projects, dreamt up an ad spot staring Heather Graham of "Austin Powers" as a health care public option, and filmed it with MoveOn -- which is now fundraising to get it on TV. (Related: We've spoken with Boyd on how he moves online activism offline.)
• Calling it "a bottom-up approach to greening government," the Obama White House has launched the GreenGov challenge, which asks federal employees to suggest and rate ideas for reducing the federal government's environmental impact.
• The British campaign against closed government and taxpayer-purchased duck houses. (Good for a few laughs, for the "It's been in our family...months" reference alone.)
• The winner of "Survivor: Cook Islands" (who also happens to be a lawyer and activist) is the new deputy chief of Consumer and Governmental Affairs at the FCC.
• Carly Fiorina, possible Republican candidate for governor in California, on Internet regulation, openness, and cancer.
• The FCC formally adopts open Internet rules.
• What mobile phones mean to Kenyan traders.
• And MySpace doubles down on music.

• MomsRising, the web-based organization co-founded by MoveOn co-founder Joan Blades and whose growth we profiled in a PdF Network call this summer, is pinning members of Congress in support of health care reform. (Photo courtesy of MomsRising)
• The National Security Archive is now blogging. Alas, every third word is redacted.
• As campaigning has turned to governing, has Obama forgotten the young ones? (Thanks Shaun Dakin)
• ProPublica has posted its database of the 2,000 or so contractors who got transportation contracts under the stimulus plan, searchable by county, congressional district, and contractor name.
• Google's Eric Schmidt tells Washington Posties that what Capitol Hill needs is a better command of the facts.
• And Tim Berners Lee, the man who brought us the web, is now @timberners_lee.